Robert Kowal

INTRODUCTION
New York Uni­ver­sity grad­u­ate hold­ing a B.F.A. degree in Film & Tele­vi­sion. Cred­its include direc­tor, pro­ducer, writer, story edi­tor, and most recently pro­duc­tion coor­di­na­tor for the tele­vi­sion series, Lazy­Town, pro­duced entirely in Iceland.

Exten­sive expe­ri­ence on fea­tures, episodic tele­vi­sion, doc­u­men­taries, and commercials.

Co-Founder of the Willamette Radio Work­shop, a pro­fes­sional radio the­ater company.

Wine maker for Frame­works Wine Com­pany and assis­tant wine maker for Bethel Heights Vine­yard, (2000–2005). Assis­tant wine maker for City Win­ery, New York City (2008–2009).

EXPERIENCE
Film, Tele­vi­sion & Radio:

• Writer & Story Edi­tor for the children’s series, Lit­tle Gree­nies, cur­rently in devel­op­ment with Table­Top Pro­duc­tions, 2010.
• Bev­er­age con­sul­tant for the tele­vi­sion doc­u­men­tary Liq­uid His­tory, cur­rently in devel­op­ment, 2008.
• Script Coor­di­na­tor & Story Edi­tor of the BAFTA award recip­i­ent and EMMY nom­i­nated tele­vi­sion series, Lazy­Town, Lazy­Town Enter­tain­ment and Nick Jr. exec­u­tive pro­duc­ers, 2006.
• Post-production Coor­di­na­tor, Lazy­Town, Lazy­Town Enter­tain­ment and Nick Jr. exec­u­tive pro­duc­ers, 2006.
• Producer/Writer with the Willamette Radio Work­shop, a pro­fes­sional radio the­ater com­pany, 2001– present.
• Producer/Director for the PBS series New Amer­i­can Cui­sine; Dig­i­tal Daugh­ter and Ore­gon Pub­lic Broad­cast­ing exec­u­tive pro­duc­ers, 1996.
• Writer/Producer/Director of ‘Imi‘Ike, a doc­u­men­tary on the Poly­ne­sian voy­ag­ing canoes Hawai‘iloa and Hokule‘a fea­tured at the 1995 Hawaii Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val; Bishop Museum pro­ducer, 1994.
• Producer/Director for the PBS series Hawaii Cooks with Roy Yam­aguchi; Dig­i­tal Daugh­ter & KHET-TV (Hawaii Pub­lic Tele­vi­sion) exec­u­tive pro­duc­ers, 1993–1998.
• Loca­tion Sound Record­ing and Post Pro­duc­tion for film and tele­vi­sion, 1989-present. Sole pro­pri­etor of A Pri­ori Audio. 22 years sound expe­ri­ence on loca­tion and in studio.

Wine:

• Ore­gon Vine­yard Liai­son, City Win­ery, 2009-present.
• Assis­tant wine maker, City Win­ery, 2008–2009.
• Pro­pri­etor and wine maker, Frame­works Wine Com­pany, 2001-present. An inde­pen­dent wine com­pany pro­duc­ing hand-crafted lots of Pinot Noir, Chardon­nay and Riesling.
• Assis­tant Wine maker, Bethel Heights Vine­yard, 2000–2005. With wine maker Terry Cas­teel, respon­si­ble for all aspects wine pro­duc­tion. Duties include chem­i­cal analy­sis, fer­men­ta­tion over­sight, bar­rel man­age­ment, bot­tling, inven­tory con­trol, equip­ment main­te­nance. In charge of all win­ery oper­a­tions dur­ing har­vest includ­ing the man­age­ment of a crush crew of eight employees.

Edu­ca­tion
New York Uni­ver­sity, BFA degree, Film and Television